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here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

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Janet Fitch
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
Author
Journalist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
Carry
Dark
Change
World

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I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.
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We have no home, she told me. I am your home.
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this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces
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What is real is always worth it.
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But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.
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She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.
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she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.
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A dependent clause (a sentence fragment set off by commas, dontcha know) helps you explore your story by moving you deeper into the sentence. It allows you to stop and think harder about what you've already written. Often the story you're looking for is inside the sentence. The dependent clause helps you uncover it.
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They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question?
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How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.
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A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.
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Never apologize. Never explain.
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Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.
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My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
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I felt suddenly cruel, like I´d told dmall children there was no tooth fairy, that it was just their Mom sneaking into their room after they went to bed.
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And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.
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Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.
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